Played by Anthony Audenshaw
First Appearance on 19th September 2000
Job; Travelling sales rep for 'Naughty Nylons' Now Manager for
Eric Pollards factory

2000
Viv is immediately taken with Bob’s amusing banter. They
have dinner together. Viv is smitten.
When Bob arrives back in the village, the young girl makes a point
of flirting with him in the pub and suggests that he is interested
in her. Viv walks in to witness Bob expressing his disgust at Kelly’s
proposition. Viv calls her an evil little minx and they end up
slapping each other. Viv disowns Kelly and tells her to leave.

Bob seems to be avoiding Viv
until he reappears in the shop. He has to mediate between Viv
and Carol as they continue to bicker
at breakfast. Bob suggests a Christmas party, Carol agrees, Viv
takes more persuading. With the party in full swing, Viv announces
that she’d like Bob to move in. Bob’s initial reaction
is laughter but he later accepts her offer.

Bob keeps making excuses as to when he is going to move in. Donna
thinks it is very suspicious. Bob tries to make friends with Donna
when he takes her shopping for a ski jacket.

2001
Bob announces yet another quick departure, annoying Viv once again,
and when he returns she kicks him out. Desperate to win her back
he scales a drainpipe. The plan succeeds, but he’s soon
booted out again after Viv discovers he has been discussing intimate
secrets with Cain.

A reconciliation looks unlikely
until Bob gets drunk, leaves the pub and spontaneously asks Viv
to get married. She is overjoyed.
The next morning Bob is surprised she accepted, and admits he only
did it to please her. At the wedding, he’s nervous but the
ceremony goes ahead.

He continues to be away from
home, his wife suggestes they work together in the shop, Bob
is horrified. Viv decides she wants to
buy the B&B and Carol will buy the shop. Bob isn’t overjoyed
when the offfer on the B&B is accepted but he keeps quiet.
He keeps fobbing Viv off by saying he has to train someone else
up, which all takes time.

Bob loses his job at Naughty Nylons because Viv enters the Naughty
Nylons lovely legs competition under her maiden name. She wins
but his boss finds out and he is forced to resign or Viv must give
up her title. He resigns and gets a job as Eric Pollards factory
manager.

Friday | 14.03.03

Emmerdale's Viv Hope is concerned now Bob's ex-wife Jean is back.

The gossipy postmistress is worried that the former lovers' united disapproval
of their daughter's forthcoming marriage will rekindle their long-dead romance.

As preparations intensify for young Dawn's nuptials to much-older
Terry Woods, the ex-spouses begin to carefully plot a way to ensure
their child comes to her senses. Leaving Viv paranoid that she
is being deliberately left out.

However, maybe Viv should be more worried about her past re-emerging.
On the eve of her own wedding to barman Bob, Viv enjoyed a cheeky
encounter with a limo driver which has remained a secret.

But with village bad girl Steph Stokes in possession of the damning
piece of information it can only be a matter of time before the
truth is out.

Emmerdale's Bob Hope is set to have his heart broken.
Bob has been busy trying to sort out his daughter's love life but a revelation
is about to destroy his own marriage.

The Woolpack barman's wife, Viv, has been hiding a terrible secret.
But the village gossip let it slip to Bob's ex-wife, Jean, who
is back for daughter Dawn's wedding.

Shockingly, last year at Tricia Stokes' hen night, Viv enjoyed
a passionate encounter with their limo driver Matti.

Although some of the village women know all about the affair,
it has remained a secret - until now. Jean takes great delight
in spilling the beans to horrified Bob.

Tony Audenshaw, who plays the unwitting husband, says, "Bob
doesn't believe Jean at first. He thinks she is just being vindictive.
But after a while, he knows she is telling the truth - he can just
tell."

"Bob is very, very angry and upset. He thought he was in
a happy marriage - but now he feels a fool, thinking about how
everyone else knew about this when he didn't."

Can one of the Dales' happiest marriages survive such a devastating
blow?

Wednesday | 19.03.03

Barman Bob has got to the end of his tether.
The pressure of Dawn's wedding and Viv's infidelity has taken its toll on the
normally happy-go-lucky local, and his reaction was violent.

After his antics at his daughter's wedding - where he tried to
sabotage the ceremony and then came to blows with the limo driver
who bedded his wife - he vanishes. And his stunned loved ones are
left fearing for his safety.

But now Bob has got in touch with his inner brute, will limo driver
Matti be the only person to feel the force of his fury?

An Emmerdale spokesperson admits, "Bob has found it bitterly
difficult to swallow the idea of Terry marrying his daughter and
their friendship has been sorely tested.

"He is stunned to learn about Viv's fling with Matti. He
certainly hadn't expected to see him at the church and have the
chance to deliver instant revenge!"

Tony Audenshaw, who plays Emmerdale's Bob Hope, admits to a mixture of surprise
and delight after winning TV's Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes.

In the soap his tempestuous marriage to Viv, played by Deena Payne, has kept
fans hooked.

And when they teamed up for the celebrity talent show their version of Islands
in the Stream ensured you would never look at Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton
in the same way again.

" It was great actually. It was nice to do something different," grins
Tony, 38, during a break from filming Emmerdale.

" When you're there it's such a relief to get it over with that you think:
'God. I really don't want do that again. So it was a really nice surprise."
Tony, who lives in north Derbyshire with his wife and two children, sums up
his character's appeal: "Bob's a bit of a joker. He kind of wears his
heart on his sleeve. Ducks and dives a bit. Is pretty much put on by his missus.
He's a normal man," he laughs. "He's every man."
Tony is a keen runner and is training for the London marathon where he hopes
to get around in under three hours, which means knocking 15 minutes off last
year's time. He is raising money for the Leukaemia Research Fund.

CHEATING Viv Hope wants nothing more than for her husband, Bob,
to forgive and forget her fling with a limo driver. Bob, however,
is not in the mood to show mercy.

He’s determined to give Viv a hard time and wreak revenge.

“Bob really loves Viv,” says Tony Audenshaw, who plays the cheated
husband. “That’s why he was so devastated when he learned she’d
been unfaithful.”

Terry tries to comfort his friend by insisting Viv’s limo driver lover, Matti,
is a womaniser. Bob hits on an idea. He books the limo and when it arrives,
he and a reluctant Terry bundle Matti into the back.

Bob then demands the Lothario tells him about his session with
Viv.

“Matti the driver is scared he is going to get thumped by Bob
again,” says Tony. “He admits Viv said it was just a one-off because
she loved her husband. The fling didn’t count.

“Bob decides if flings don’t count then he’ll have one himself,
and he bursts into the pub searching for a willing partner. But,
he can’t bring himself to be unfaithful to Viv.”

Viv begs Bob for a second chance but he insists their marriage
is over. The next day, they receive the news that Donna, Viv’s
daughter, has collapsed - and her friends
think she’s taken an overdose.

“It’s soon clear that Donna hasn’t taken an overdose - it was
a cry for help and attention.”

One good thing does emerge from Donna’s collapse, though. “The
scare brings Bob and Viv closer,” explains Tony. “But when Viv’s
hopes rise, Bob insists that they’re not back together; they’ve
got to take the future very slowly.”

In the aftermath of daughter Donna's tragic accident, the feuding
spouses vow to get their relationship back on track for her sake.

The Hopes have been estranged ever since barman Bob discovered
his wife had cheated on him with limo driver Matti. He rebuffed
all her attempts to make amends.

But Donna's drink fuelled cry for help has woken both of them
up. They realise how selfish they both have been in not thinking
about how their rows have impacted on the youngster's life.

Actress Deena Payne, who plays the cheating postmistress says, "I
think it's a turning point for them. Bob realises that there's
more to life than dwelling on a bad situation and tries to start
the healing between them."

Deena confesses that no-one want to see the pair back together
more than her.

She says, "I'm desperate for Viv to get back with Bob, they work
so well as a couple. I'd like to see them happy again. Since they
got married they always seem to be fighting."

Newcomer Eddie Hope descends on the Dales looking for Bob.

The portly salesman arrives to find that his barman brother has already departed
on a cruise but decides to await his return.

And the villagers better brace themselves because according to actor Nigel
Betts, who has taken on the role, the double glazing salesman is going to be
quite a handful.

Nigel laughs, "He tries selling windows to absolutely anybody - men,
women, farm animals - they'll all do. He gets to know a lot of people in the
village quite quickly and, of course, there's his lovely niece Dawn Woods,
who he has not seen for years and has got a real soft spot for.

"He ends up helping her out in the cafe and he even tries to sell double
glazing along with the rhubarb and custard.

"Eddie was a very good salesman and at the top of his game at one point.
He was a proper old-fashioned door-to-door salesman - but he's just been overtaken
by the new ways of selling and got left behind.

Emmerdale's talent show ends in terrible tragedy for the villagers.

Wacky brothers Eddie and Bob Hope delight the Woolpack punters
with their high camp show but a horror incident is unfolding elsewhere.

Village vicar Ashley Thomas has been worrying all week that the
event will be a resounding failure after failing to secure any
definite acts. But, unable to resist the lure of the stage, Bob
and his brother decide to update their classic show - complete
with leopardskin outfits and fake moustaches.

The hilarious sight distracts attention from Sam Dingle's lamentable
impression of a bird and everybody is having a whale of a time
- until the police arrive.

Shocked Zoe Tate is taken outside to be told that there has been
a death at Home Farm and has to be escorted back to the vicarage
by Ashley. As the news spreads, Terry Woods breaks down devastated
that he might have prevented the incident.

But, while Emmerdale's shocked locals try to take in the tragedy,
the police are working hard to establish what exactly happened
at Home Farm.

Emmerdale stroke victim Terry Woods gets himself a new nurse.

The onetime chauffeur has spent the last few months in hospital
after collapsing following the traumatic birth of his baby son
TJ.

But thanks to a dedicated medical team and the support of young
wife Dawn - Terry’s condition is slowly getting better.

However, thanks to his frustration and jealousy, Terry managed
to ruin Dawn’s Christmas by accusing local hunk Scott Windsor
of making a move on her. Following the embarrassing incident, Terry
repented and told Dawn to take a break from him by going to visit
her mother in Spain.

So when doctors tell Terry he can now go home, the lonely patient
has no-one to take care of him.

Luckily for Terry, there’s always one man he can count on.
His pal Bob Hope - Dawn’s dad - is only too happy to offer
his services until Dawn returns and promptly agrees to move into
the couple’s house.

But considering Bob’s opposition to Terry and Dawn’s
marriage, it looks like life for the Dales' odd couple could get
complicated...